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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]To those opposed to eliminating IS:

What would you propose instead?

Raising K-12 class sizes even more?[/quote]

We’re arguing that this isn’t going to save APS money. It would eliminate an exceptional program to disperse us around the county for a worse option. So the $1 million would still be spent. But instead of spending it in one site, it would be spent in classes around the county.

K-12 students aren’t going anywhere. But neither are students receiving early intervention services with APS. APS is mandated to serve them too. So our students matter just as much as K-12.

Also, from a cost-benefit analysis: if our students make significant progress in their current placement, then they are more likely to attend general education in K-12. If our students were to be moved self-contained and make significantly less progress, we would need to send them to special education classes in K-12 potentially. So if you are worried about K-12, APS would not be expanding general education classes with lower enrollment in a few years, but having to also look for room for self-contained K-12 rooms. IN ADDITION to all the rooms IS classes would be taking space in! Which we aren’t even sure APS has room for those![/quote]

If this is true, it is even worse that APS would spend so much money on a private consultant firm to come up with a variety of cuts, if they didn't figure in what needs to be spend after the cut is put into reality, and what the contingencies are.  Regardless, space is APS' biggest issue and we've been told for a decade that there is NONE, which is why they should stop building housing and stop with all the density initiatives, acting as if they want more and more people their kids here with no ceiling and no limits.[/quote]

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